NextFest
San Francisco, April 2004

This is a teenager riding a motorized
skateboard. Note the handheld throttle and brake, just like a bike, so all
acceleration and speed are controlled by the rider's hand. the chassis is
soft enough to do hockey stops and has some give for going over bumps, curbs,
etc.

This memory robot is the graduate
project of an MIT grad student (arms shown). After building with colored
pieces, the blue hub piece incessantly repeats the motion the creator does
with it.